Ive never participated in a traditional auction. The impression is that you couldnt withdraw bids. Is that normally the case or just a bad assumption on my part?I wonder if the shenanigans of pulling the large bid in the final seconds affected the final price it would have otherwise gone for. For example, someone placing that $1.2MM bid may have pushed out bidders that would have payed $900k+ and then didn't have time to bid after the withdrawal.
OK, I'll take the tinfoil off my head now.
Somewhere Woz said he had a few boxes of Apple Is in a garage somewhere. Truly "money that hasn't been looked at."
The components in the 80s were huge, though. Good luck trying to solder any tiny parts by hand in something with as little internal space as a 2016 Macbook Pro.A strange irony. People now complain about soldered components. Back then, soldering was one of the main ways to upgrade components![]()
Woz's early creations command a lot of money these days. I was surprised an accelerator card fetched nearly three times the original price. Can't say the same for the early Macs which only have dumpster value.
The components in the 80s were huge, though. Good luck trying to solder any tiny parts by hand in something with as little internal space as a 2016 Macbook Pro.